Continuing the discussion from Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Sequential Art, & you (Part 1) - #2061 by daphaknee.
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I can’t believe how good these are
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From “Balder Must Die!” in Journey into Mystery #107, August 1964. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby pencils, Vince Colletta inks, Artie Simek letters.
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I’ve started reading the 1970s Savage Sword of Conan. Published alongside Conan the Barbarian, but black and white and technically a magazine rather than a comic to dodge the Comics Code. So far I’m finding a lot of the stories fun and the artwork is often very good.
The essays are fun to read, too. They discuss, for example, the interactions between Robert Howard (creator of Conan), H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith.
There sure are a lot of different Conan comics out there, I’ve recently learned.
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The comics take some of the edges off, but unfortunately there’s a lot of inherent racism in Conan–beyond what’s there in '70s comics in general, I mean; even a bit beyond the racism inevitable in any fictional universe of biologically based good and evil–in just about any early English-language fantasy, for instance. And Lovecraft was virulently racist.
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I can only read conans dialogue here in tulpas impression of him
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Interesting article about how modern Conan writers are approaching this:
I also read this the other day. Some very nice artwork and although it takes place in an interesting future world the story seems a little rushed and simplistic at times. But I definitely like it enough to read book 2. (You kind of have to because this book is mostly setup for whatever comes next, which I don’t know because I haven’t read the original Moorcock novels.)
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Moorcock is famous for occasionally writing books over a weekend when he needed the cash
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I did not know this! : D
To me he’s famous for appearing as a smooth dandy in this interview from his younger days ^ _^
To each their own, but if the property owners for some bizarre reason came to me and said hey do you want to adapt this racist story or write a new story starring this character who originally starred in racist stories I would say no, that is not a thing I want to do.